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Company Overview:
SteadyRain, an award-winning digital agency headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri is seeking an experienced PHP Solutions Architect to join our growing Development team. As a firm, we provide a unique blend of digital strategy consulting, user interface and user experience design, web development, software development and digital marketing campaign strategy and management services.
SteadyRain is composed of people who passionately love their work and strive to provide exceptional results. We are a hardworking, determined team focused on industry leadership through providing value and innovation for our customers. We aren’t just a group of employees working hard for customers—we nurture, support, and celebrate one another as we grow together to make the impossible possible. Our company is proudly employee-owned, so we all have a direct stake in the success of our solutions (and one another). Employees pitch in across teams to deliver the best strategy, highest level of services, and strongest solutions, making our collective impact greater than the sum of our parts.
As a PHP Solutions Architect, you will personally make an impact by:
Leading the establishment of an IT Architecture practice, and the adoption of an architecture and standards methodologyDeveloping coding best practices, playbooks, frameworks and solutions for our customers and internal teamWorking with our team to create great products for our customersWriting clean, maintainable and performance codeOutlining architectural best practices for our platformOptimizing applications for maximum speed and scalabilityHelping to drive, document and continually refine platform standardsHelping to drive new tech research and experimentationCollaborating with other team members and stakeholders
Requirements:Minimum of five (5) years writing PHPMinimum five (5) years working in WordPressExperience with at least one PHP framework like Symphony, Laravel, CodeIgniter or an understanding of PHP-open source projects like WordPress, Joomla or DrupalExperience leading IT Architecture decisions Knowledge working with common third-party APIsKnowledge and experience with W3 Standards and cross-browser compatibilityExperience with source control such as Git or MercurialExperience in guiding and mentoring junior developersFlexibility in a fast-paced dynamic environment with shifting roles and responsibilitiesTechnically creative and open-mindedExperience working at a digital agencyAbility to solve complex performance problems and architectural challengesGreat communication and problem-solving skillsComfortable working on PC platformDetail oriented and focus on quality assurance of workOnline portfolio or personal website with samples of relevant work a plus
Benefits:
Full Time Flexible Scheduling Remote Work Options Paid Time Off & Vacation Matching 401k Plan ESOP100% Coverage of Health Insurance for Employee Dental Insurance Vision Insurance FSA Plan Life Insurance Long Term Disability
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